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#1

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
― Alan Watts

tags: self, universe

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#2

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”
― Alan Watts

tags: oneness, universe

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#3

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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#4

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe their husband is about to return and need his shoes.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#5

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

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#6

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: grief

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#7

“There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#8

“America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently than at any time in recent memory, because that turns out to be a good coping strategy in hard times. Our nation faces huge challenges, no doubt. So do the rest of the world's aging economic powers. If you had to pick a nation with the right stuff to ride out the coming demographic storm, you'd be crazy not to choose America, warts and all.”
― Pew Research Center, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

tags: ageism, aging, aging-population, aging-workforce, american-culture, american-dream, american-politics, american-population, conflict, demograghic-shifts, demographics, demographics-of-united-states, demographics-of-us, economics, gemographic-shift, generation-gap, generations, interdependence, population, problems-of-today, public-policy, race-and-racism-in-america, race-in-america, race-relations, recession, the-american-dream, u-s-culture, u-s-politics, u-s-population, workforce

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#9

“We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

tags: climate-change, environment, generation, global-warming

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#10

“Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: advancement, chronological-snobbery, conservatives, culture, ego, egocentrism, era, ethnocentrism, generation, humility, intelligence, liberals, modern, past, period, present, pride, progressives, spirit-of-the-age, superiority, technology

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#11

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
― Albert Einstein

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#12

“Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.”
― Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

tags: alan-sheinwald

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#13

“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"

[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: empowerment, equality, feminist, gandhi, gender, inspirational, men, strength, women

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#14

“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: nonviolence, pacifism

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#15

“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: nonviolence, satyagraha

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#16

“There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

tags: compassion, goal, humanity, kindness, leadership, life-positive, negotiation, path-of-love, world-peace, yoga

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#17

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
― Bob Marley

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#18

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

tags: music

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#19

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#20

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy

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#21

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#22

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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#23

“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#24

“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: calm, insane, insanity, sane, sensible

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#25

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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#26

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

tags: corporation, empire, hope, peace, revolution, war

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#27

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#28

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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#29

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

tags: misattributed-einstein

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